Tag Archive: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Bill Closing SEC FOIA Exemption Goes to the President

by Daniel Schuman Sep 24, 2010 11:18 am

Yesterday the House passed legislation to close a loophole that may have allowed the SEC to disregard certain FOIA requests.... View Article

Senate Moves to Close SEC FOIA Loophole

by Daniel Schuman Sep 22, 2010 11:38 am

Yesterday the Senate unanimously voted to close a loophole that may have allowed the SEC to disregard certain FOIA requests. The... View Article

New Openness Rules for Finance Reform

by John Wonderlich Aug 17, 2010 11:23 am

On Friday, the New York Times reported that four agencies responsible for implementing the financial reform bill are announcing new... View Article

Does FinReg Contain Anti-Transparency Measures?

by Daniel Schuman Aug 1, 2010 7:15 pm

I’ve been reading about a brewing controversy over whether language in the new Financial Regulations Act — officially the Dodd-Frank... View Article

U.S. Energy, Mining Companies Must Disclose Government Payments

by Jim Morris

investigations

Jul 2, 2010 12:03 pm

U.S. energy companies will soon have to reveal how much they pay foreign governments for rights to produce crude oil, natural gas and minerals around the world.

Tucked near the end of the more than 2,000-page final version of the financial reform bill is language requiring energy companies to submit the payment information annually to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The provision was added by Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a long-time supporter of the voluntary Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and by Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, also a Democrat. That global initiative is backed ...

Using TransparencyData.com to track Goldman’s partners

by Bill Allison

investigations

Apr 22, 2010 3:34 pm

We all know, thanks to the Center for Responsive Politics, that Goldman Sachs is a heavy hitter--in the 2008 presidential cycle, among the top donors to both Barack Obama and John McCain, that its employees, their family members and its PAC favor Democrats in their giving by a two to one margin (and three to one in the 2008 election cycle), and Goldman Sachs has been among the top 100 donors to 286 election campaign committees for members of Congress.

But what about others involved in the financial instrument that the Securities and Exchange Commission alleges was fraudulent? Is ACA ...

Return on Lobbying Investment: 22,000%

by Paul Blumenthal Apr 9, 2009 11:02 am

There’s a reason why lobbying has boomed so much over the last decade. The potential return on investment is just... View Article

Feds: Freddie Mac should hide info from SEC

by Bill Allison

investigations

Mar 27, 2009 1:28 pm

Yesterday, we learned from the Chicago Tribune that Freddie Mac documents are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act because they contain or might compromise commercial information--that is, the proprietary insider information of a private company. Today, in the Washington Post, we learn that that private company was pressured to withhold negative information it was obligated to disclose under SEC rules. It seems that following government policy will adversely affect its bottom line, and the firm wanted to tell its remaining shareholders that.

Federal officials who took over Freddie Mac stopped short of nationalizing the company, leaving it partly ...

SEC Rules for Transparency and Oversight

by Ellen Miller Dec 23, 2008 3:10 pm

John Wonderlich, Sunlight’s program director, writing at the Open House Project Google Group, tipped me off to an encouraging development.... View Article

Inspector Generals

by Ellen Miller Dec 22, 2008 7:10 pm

Maybe we should all spend more time reading the Inspector General reports, which are (required to be) posted on line.... View Article

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